About Claire Benard

Claire Benard is senior data scientist in the research team at NCVO. She collects, processes and analyses data to grow the evidence base on the sector. One major part of this is the UK Civil Society Almanac.

The NCVO’s UK Civil Society Almanac is a rich source of information on the voluntary sector. To be as complete and accurate as possible, we bring together: data from charities’ accounts, the Charity Commission’s open data and national surveys.
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Claire Benard talks about what she learned during her time in Chicago with the Uptake.org fellowship and how this can be applied to data science in other voluntary sector organisations.
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